📍URCA | Rio de Janeiro
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🍹 @restauranteterrabrasilis (££)
🏨 @hiltoncopacabana (£££)
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🎥 Behind the scenes: More of an upmarket residential area, Urca isn’t really somewhere you would base yourself when visiting Rio - if wanting to stay close to Urca we would recommend a hotel at the Leme end of Copacabana.
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The main attraction in Urca is Pão de Açúcar, or Sugarloaf Mountain as you’ll probably know it. You can make a day of it by chilling on the beautiful Praia Vermelha (Red Beach), heading to Terra Brasilis for lunch and a few cocktails before heading up to Sugarloaf just before sunset so you get best of both. Once done watching the sunset from the top head down and onto Bar Urca for dinner. Tip: be prepared for queues for the cable car down from Sugarloaf if you leave not long after sunset, so one to take into account when booking a table for dinner.
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If you aren’t quite ready for home after dinner, you can join the locals lined up along the wall outside Bar Urca with their beers and great views of Guanabara Bay. If you want something a little more lively head to the Botafogo district, Rio’s equivalent of Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle, Manchester’s Northern Quarter or London’s Camden.
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